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The Jazz Session #251: Ben Allison
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AAJ Staff
Bassist Ben Allison delivers an original and exciting take on tunes by everyone from Samuel Barber to Neil Young to Thelonious Monk on his new CD, Action-Refraction (Palmetto, 2011). In this interview, Allison talks about an iPhone app that changed the sound palette on his new record; two musicians whove joined him for the first time on this CD; and how he deals with the lyrical content of these songs in his instrumental arrangements. NOTE: This episode contains an advanced ...
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Texas Caceres Family Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz presents a tribute to the Texas musical legacy of the Caceres family. The show is distributed nationwide in the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM as well as streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Hot jazz has always found a home in San Antonio. In the 1930s, Emilio and Ernie Caceres were its hottest exports. New York critics praised the brothers' 1937 Victor recordings with Emilio swinging hard on violin. They admired ...
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Celebrating Time Out: David Sanborn on Paul Desmond
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
In 2009, Dave Brubeck's musical masterpiece Time Out turned 50 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, I produced a podcast series celebrating this timeless work. Along with interviewing Dave Brubeck himself about the album, I also interviewed three additional musicians saxophonist David Sanborn, bassist Mike Richmond and drummer Bill Bruford to discuss the influential work of Time Out band members, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. For reasons beyond my scope, this series was never released. Featured on this ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 14, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 274 286 -12 0 61 1 5 2 2 4 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 257 248 +9 0 56 2 6 3 3 3 Jeremy Pelt Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote) 185 209 -24 0 41 2 7 4 5 5 Ernestine Anderson Nightlife: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (HighNote) 172 171 +1 ...
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The Traneumentary: Karrin Allyson
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
Grammy-nominated artist Karrin Allyson has been churning out one great recording after another great recording for many years. With each album comes a new musical theme in which she performs both as a vocalist and pianist. A few years back she paid homage to John Coltrane with the release of Ballads-Remembering John Coltrane—a set of the repertoire from the classic Ballads album along with a few added Trane inspired pieces. The album was not only successful but critically acclaimed. On ...
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Obama Urges Congress to Save Public Radio...
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Digital Music News
As the House gets closer to voting on the fate of federal funding for public radio in the United States, the Obama Administration has weighed in. Earlier this week, the House Rules Committee agreed to send H.R. 1076 to the floor for an emergency vote. In response, following statement was just shared with Digital Music News:
The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1076, which would unacceptably prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the use ...
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